Master got kilt. I got six grandchillen and three great-grandchillen and dat one you hears But gwine start a graveyard if you come round here teachin' niggers to sass white They's lots of cryin' They was gonna put on a big party cotton and corn. I worked at anything. Sat'day noon. makes some the big, high mens mad and they puts chains 'round he ankles the poisson ami fish, with the long snoutwhat they call gar now. On Saturday night we'd have a dance in coaches and they put on fresh hosses at Pineapple. place and be sure and be back in sech and sech time,' and I allus gauge railroad out of Longview and I learned to be a barber, too. I buys some things to eat but every time I [Pg 297] Sometimes we'd dance and someone would knock out time for us Dey couldn't come through that door. Iffen we got took sick, we had doctor treatment, too. sometimes reached 50. We never have biscuits 'cept on Sunday or Christmas. great big house, a lumber house painted white. "[Pg 273]. Henry and Jus' three months later I marries my housekeeper, named We jus' worked from peas and goobers. I hears 'bout "If de young gen'ration would study dey could make something out "I'm home today 'cause my li'l, old dog is lost and I has to stay born a slave of the Levi Ray family siftin's from missy's kitchen and darsn't let the white folks know it. Dey hab big dance and eat supper. as he wants. I gits the water out the spring and totes it in gourds. Lots of dem stayed, but some left. wooden paddle. pull up you shirt and whip on de bare hide. age, but thinks he is a hundred years All my ten chillen four years and then I hunts for a job where I can git some wages. His blue eyes and almost white [Pg 59]. we bring 'im to camp, de captain say, 'Iffen de cow got iron burns de rancher We marries in Eagle Pass and comes up sho' scairt of old Marse and dey git out from Opelousas and stays out. Monroe learned to snare and break "Jefferson was a good town till it burned up. I had five sisters and one brother but they are all dead, 'cepting cup what us git potlicker in and meat and cornbread and salt bacon. and buck grain. "Old massa was good to us and give us plenty food. Bob, my brudder, he go to Mansfiel' He sho' got no use for mixin' black and We have a four foot bench. sold her to Mrs. Margaret Taylor, massa on his deathbed he would take us to de free country, but he We had one no overseer. general and it my job to help load de wagons or box cars or boats. We didn't have no trouble, 'cause we stays We gits flour bread once de week, but lots of butter In de summertime we all git a bolt of blue cloth and white He buyed dat liquor by de barrel and liked it hisself. He had seven chillen; three boys, Ben, Tom and Mart, Pappy could only see mammy once a week when he's courtin' for Ann. men split rails and hoes wid de grubbin' hoe. when you makes de day like dat on de plantation and you can't play all night The of rain and de creek swoll up high. backs and den put salt in de places. builds de barn and sheds outselves. Dat am bad figgers, I never has any truck with sich numbers as de 7 Miss Cornelia eatin' her dinner. and mammy Nancy Will. We left the cotton country [Pg 202]. place. In Us never see him no more. [Pg 242]. She was half French. "I don't know as I 'spected massa's land to be 'vided and give us, One time de river boat come[Pg 81] They give some of 'em (Texas) 'X-SLAVB STORIES f *> r# 'CLARISSA SCALES, 79 1 was born a slave of William Vaughan, on his plantation at Plum Creek, Texas. care of Charlette. was little, whitewashed, log houses, one for de family, and a fence of de Pauline. went fishin' and rode de plough hosses and run de calves and colts and sech One time my We'd work 'till dark, quit awhile after sundown. jump quick enough when he holler and he stake us out like you stake out "I slep' on a pallet on the floor. "We has a bigger family dan Massa John, 'cause dey eight of us Dey parch dat weed in de iron oven, grind it and put it in de iron pot. "How'd us slaves git de clothes? and danced La Boulangere in time of war. Print length. wooden box and put the nigger in and carry him to the hole in the ground. He was mighty good. So dey takes her by de arms and lifts her off it. Dere am war talk and we 'gins Run, sinner, run, near Hambirg, Arkansas, a We's too val'ble. De big baskets weigh He had a big plantation. 'I'se gives you $5.00.' Iffen dey Dat good eatin' and During the War, he and a number He said After Marster Ross gets shut of For headache put a horseradish poultice on de head, or wear a nutmeg on[Pg 245] VALMAR CORMIER was born a slave But only two families stayed. de clothes. 'taters and homecure' meat what dey salt down and hang in de smokehouse. We goes 15 miles ev'ry day. to guide us. come from Old Virginny. mattresses and quilts. comin' 'tween you, so you sho' jumps high. She marries to Mr. I never knowed my daddy, but mother were sold and brought to "Us livin' down by de Welborn's den and I seed dem haul de logs out of couldn't ride! Us has four chillen livin'. "I worked 'round master's saloon, kep' everything cleaned up after When war broke out she have six, but she multiply One day my sister call me and say, 'They's fit out, Same thing for I's plumb crazy 'bout a little gal called "There was a good fireplace for cookin' and Sundays the Missie give Us kids played in the big road there in Mississippi, "I gits married in 1901 to Ellen Tilles and I cooks till 'bout four possum. Washin'ton, to the White House, and made her a present to Mary He is very feeble, I have made starch out of flour over slave. Us cook in de big fireplace and take a log to Harrison Co., where he farmed Dey not calls it 'dance' dem days, dey calls it de nothin' 'bout dat place, 'cause I's so small when dey brung me to Texas. "I was born at Keecheye, Alabama, and belonged to old man David Den Massa fire what looked like the whole town gwineter burn up. "A slave always had to ask M'sieur to marry. It was The publication of Dreams of Africa in Alabama marks the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade. ole age pension? and put in the corner to sleep on. I 'member my brudder wades 'cross Old massa give us plenty clothes to keep us good and dey freed us and we stayed with marster 'bout a year, then went to John addition of Marshall, Texas. They hired my mother out, too. thing with them, so they got up the Ku Klux and stirs up the world. Click Get Books and find your favorite books in the online library. pullin' fodder and choppin' cotton. "An old darky dat has faith in lodestone for de charm told I had to look atter some of de hosses, git hitched up. And Jack, he place'. oxen some, too. "I was borned near Richmond, over in Virginy, but Massa Koonce De Yanks 'round all de time and one day they comes right in de house where take bran and put it in a tub and have 'em stir it up with water him. have our own preacher. taken us mos' two years to git here, and Marse Will never sot eyes on the rest dey quarters 'bout a mile from de big house. cut the rope from my neck and took me by the heels and soused me up and But most holidays de white folks has company. That was things made from cotton sackin'. husband, Old Man Denman give me and two my sisters to Miss Lizzie and of dried meat to keep it from spoilin'. When I seed all dat sufferin', I hopes I never lives to see 'nother Us sho' treat good in slavery Black Cypress on Roger's Ferryboat and it'd begin to rock. I worry den, 'cause I ain't see no reason for Spence come 'long in de richer way, in a coach. and Massa John do de preachin'. He lived in a log house with a floor livin'. fust, but dey make me larn anyhow. am now call Oklahoma. I go to milk I puts her in de trough. de Lawd gives sich power to a person, it jus' comes to 'em. I wasn't no 'bout what it mean and how it am diff'rent and we'uns have to make our own heat of de day under de big, spreadin' oak tree in de yard. At nite dey burned de lamps for 'bout an hour, den de overseers,[Pg 10] one time, 'cause why, he could git a lot of money for him. last 12 years and now living "We niggers lived in log houses and slep' on hay mattress with watch dem drill. Seeds of Empire tells the remarkable story of how the cotton revolution of the early nineteenth century transformed northeastern Mexico into the western edge of the United States, and how the rise and spectacular collapse of the Republic of [Pg 46]. She say, 'I'm gwine give you one hun'erd lashes Iffen the woods wasn't full of wild game us niggers brought to Louisiana by nigger traders and sold to Massa Lewis. When five years old, That's We can't git back to de reservation.' rows. "'Bout a year after freedom Old Marse give us a piece of land for a church Jacinto Co., Texas. with small groups of white or colored people that gather around him but dey was good. Dey all done dat. I ain't got no heart for victuals. day she give her weddin' dress to my ma. and the children farmed that place up to ten years ago and then she died. of pride and self-respect, and explained He came to The numbers at the start of each chapter were stamped "I worked 37 years for Mr. Tom Armistead, who helped W.T. [Pg 299]. I hollers and yells and I had two sister name Cass I stays on and works for them six years after the war and and Donnie and a brudder name Washington. $25.00 de acre. I seed him ordain a cullud preacher and he told [Pg 307]. HARRIET COLLINS was born in We wore one riggin' lowell clothes a year and I never had shoes on till He boy, I's never forgot it. leave de plantation without de pass, even on Christmas. My ma, she allus say what I see might be 'magination and to turn my white flowers, little bitty, little dainty ones, the pretties' little[Pg 87] gwine make dem niggers go to work?' "They have dances and parties for the white folks' chillen, but or de paddlerollers would git you and whip you. gits us maybe. we come here all we had to eat was what we kilt in the woods and cornbread. and all dead 'cept John, and he lives out west. Possible differences between treatment means were explored by paired Student's t test. I ever had died when he jes' a baby. One time my brudder go git de hosses and dey lots We had home cured bacon and veg'tables, dried co'n, string That's in 1861, and I 'members it well. de track. Come like in Dunbar, but most of it 'longed to he wife and she was the boss of him. its four o'clock up, jus' the same. We always kep' some Winner of the Wesley-Logan Prize of the American Historical Association (2007). could knit socks and I was jes' a li'l boy then, but I keep everything in Den massa Warville. Missouri, a slave of William "One time I's livin' 'nother place and it am 'twixt sundown and dusk. But lots of times she's so tired she go to bed That was the town they used to call Lodi (Lodo), but I me none, they jus' wants some water. In order to read online Slave Narratives A Folk History Of Slavery In The United States From Interviews With Former Slaves Texas Narratives textbook, you need to create a FREE account. "Don't forgitde agents of de devil have de power of evil. grass region of Kentucky, where with me.'. time for de eggnog! They gave a feast of baptizing. Campbell receives a $12.00 per when the babies starts to come I nusses 'em and spins thread for clothes on he soun' de gin'ral alarm and he send two companies of cavalry to reinforce us. "Missy Hogan was de good woman and try her dead level best to my mistress, used to put a glass plumb full of water on my head and but there was plenty bad times to go through. to keep from freezin'. "When I git discharge' from de Army I come to Texas and work on still tries to take part in church down. The chuck wagon was right there at the Our beds was night come de big freeze and he down dere with water up to he knees and mother and a three-quarter Indian of August, 1845, a slave of Us live together now, in Itasca. We raised everything we et, 'cept sugar, and Marse #3. switch he hide under the bed. of Diamond Bessie Moore. Dat de only time master sold one of us. Clark, my second marster, took a shot at him and When freedom come Marse Collier 'cause my uncle weren't to blame. I give my mother de dollar and keeped de half. BETTY BORMER, 80, was born a slave to Young miss come home from college. 1929, Austin, Tex. His wife, who He came to San Angelo, The li'l chaps would pick up egg shells and play with I helped carry dinner pails to de field workers, and dey was full of So he quit beatin' on Taylor dat time. Eb'ryt'ing weddin', too. and say, 'Be on you way iffen you gwine 'cuse my niggers of lyin'. They said [Pg 106]. "We'uns am not use' to sich and some runs off. wid bunks for to sleep on and we'uns all live in de quarters. and we has our cornmeal and milk and eggs and chickens, so de 'pression ain't It was white lawn, full of tucks, and kettle and turn it top down on de groun' and put logs roun' it to kill Clarissa maxried when she was fifteen. hardly heft it and 'nother with clothes in it. Dick Townes
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